7 www.SmallFarmCanada.ca TOP: RMD17- ADOBE STOCK | BOTTOM LEFT: PARILOV - ADOBE STOCK | BOTTOM RIGHT: ANDRY KUZMIN - ADOBE STOCK | VECTYX - ADOBE STOCK | ELBENEDIKT - ADOBE STOCK 6 October 2025 MARKET BRINGS DAIRY AND BEEF TOGETHER AGAIN Recent improvements in dairy cow reproduction technology have given farmers greater access to a lucrative market segment. In the past few years, more dairies have begun implanting beef cattle embryos to dairy-cow surrogates and are cashing in due to increasing demand for the calves in the US. Milk prices have been all over the map in the US recently and dairy farmers have looked to the beef market as a “risk management opportunity,” said Daniel Munch, an economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “They’re also becoming beef producers.” He said. Source: AgAlert.com The new world screwworm is a parasite that exploits any open wound of warm-blooded animals. Female flies lay hundreds of eggs in even the tiniest cut, scrape or orifice (corner of the eye, nostils, etc). From there, screw-shaped larvae, emerge to twist and bore into their victim, eating them alive and causing a putrid, life-threatening lesion. While sterile flies (sterile insect technique or SIT) are currently the most effective way to prevent the spread of NWS, technology continues to evolve. The USDA will provide up to $100 million to invest in viable innovations that show rapid progress of promising technologies. USDA will also construct a sterile fly production facility, at Moore Air Force Base, Edinburg, TX with proximity to the United States-Mexico border. It will produce up to 300 million sterile flies per week. This USA-based sterile fly facility will work in tandem with facilities in Panama and Mexico to help eradicate the pest. NWS was considered eradicated from North and Central America in the early 2000s. • Mexico has reported additional human cases of NWS myiasis in Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatan, and Tabasco • El Salvador has confirmed its fourth human case of NWS myiasis • Honduras has reported 2,496 animal cases of NWS, most of them on its border with Nicaragua; the sterile fly release in the region has also stopped, as all the sterile fly production in Panama is being sent to Mexico • Guatemala has reported additional cases of NWS in cattle, horses, pigs, and dogs • The US has confirmed its first human travel- associated case of NWS myiasis in a resident of Maryland who recently travelled to El Salvador Source: ProMed US BRACES FOR THE NEW WORLD SCREWWORM (NWS) SMALL FARM CANADA BARNYARD HUMOUR Help build a better internet in your community. GIVE US A HAND! Test your internet performance IF YOU BOIL A FUNNY BONE... IT BECOMES A LAUGHING STOCK! ...HUMERUS!
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